Earle Byrd From Mexia
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Afinação: E A D G B ETecla: GCapotraste: Sem capotraste
As recorded by Muscadine Bloodline
(2024 release)
[Intro]
G
[Verse 1]
G
You know ol Earle Byrd down round Mexia
G
Friscos the closest town
G
Take a ride off the black top onto the chirt rock
G
Take ya right by his house
C
He got a cur dog chained to a dog wood
C
And a mule that's meaner than shit
G
He's got him a champion fighting rooster
G
That Chickens the pride of the Uriah pit
D
Served his country in Korea
C
Served his time up in a cell
[Chorus]
G
For cooking up good homemade corn liquor
G
The Kind that make a man go blind
G
Kind that make a poor man richer
G
When the folks vote the county dry
G
Kind that'll get ya there quicker
G
Put some slack back in ya jaw
N.C.
I'm talkin' that good homemade corn liquor Earl
G
Byrd been brewin since the crack of dawn
[Verse 2]
G
Well now ol' Earle Byrd is an outlaw
G
Sutton of the south
G
Was the last of a breed didn't brag didn't need you to run off and run ya mouth
C
Well now one time the grape vine wind and wind
F
Through the hollers up in Perdue Hill
G
Well then follow the smoke stack way off the two track
G
Well then follow the smoke stack way off the two track
And that's where they found the still
D C Bb F
Did a ten year stint in Atmore prison farming in the fields
[Chorus]
G
For cooking up good homemade corn liquor
G
The Kind that make a man go blind
G
Kind that make a poor man richer
G
When the folks vote the county dry
G
Kind that'll get ya there quicker
G
Put some slack back in ya jaw
N.C.
I'm talkin' that good homemade corn liquor Earl
G
Byrd been brewin since the crack of dawn
[Harmonica Solo]
G
[Guitar Solo]
G F C F G F D G
[Verse 3]
G
Well now ol' Earle Byrd is 90 something sittin' on the porch
G
Ssippin' Nehi nawin' on a sugar cane shoe
G
Ride out to the house
G
And he'll tell ya all about all the rot gut rye that he used to brew
G
He's a mountain of a man from Monroe an Lord knows
G
He don't deny nothing of the preminission
N.C. G N.C.
Good ol boys from south Alabama make a livin during prohibition
[Chorus]
G
Cooking up good homemade corn liquor
G
The kind that make a man go blind
G
Kind that make a poor man richer
G
When the folks vote the county dry
G
Kind that'll get ya there quicker
G
Put some slack back in ya jaw
N.C.
I'm talkin that good homemade corn liquor Earle
N.C.
Byrd been brewin since the crack of dawn
G
Till the crack of dawn
G
Till the crack of dawn
[Outro]
G
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